大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 border on


释义：

border on 接界；相邻于；近似于

例句：



Such designs can border on camp or tacky, in the wrong hands。

如果搭配不当，这种设计看上去像是去露营或是捡破烂的。



Most of the time I hiked along the border on the weekends, or during the week if I had time off.

我大部分的边境徒步是在周末进行，或在平时的休息时间。



Now to the extent that this discussion is actually about the virginity of the Second Brother and the Elder Brother's sister, it seems, I think, to border on the ridiculous; but the debate, I think, we have to take seriously.

后来这兄弟俩谈论的对象,转到了自己的妹妹的贞洁的时候，就显得有点愚蠢了;,但我觉得这段辩论应当好好研究。



There seems to be at least built in to Aristotle's account of politics a certain flexibility a certain latitude of discretion that in some passages even seems to border on a kind of relativism.

那看似建入于,亚里士多德对政治的描述,某种弹性，某种恣意的判断力,在有些段落甚至,看起来近似一种相对论。



Second, the council ward must border on an area where there are lots of non-whites.


The textured design is complimented nicely by a metal border on the top and bottom.


Officials from both countries held a meeting at the border on Monday aimed at reducing tensions.


For some, like Republican challenger Newt Gingrich, their enthusiasm might even border on the annoying.


It turns on a concept called domicile, which can border border on the mystical.


To some people, telling high-school athletes that their "weighted assist-plus ratings" need work might border on overkill.


But the merger provides a vehicle to use its expertise across the border on a grander scale.


It might border on science fiction today, but so did going to the moon 50 years ago.


As a mere observer, I see my female friends on Facebook engaging in conversations that border on pedantic.


Officials held a meeting at the border on Monday aimed at reducing tensions.


Yes, there have been some modestly positive economic signs in the past several months, but most of them border on contraction.


The Haqqani network is based in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), which border on Afghanistan.


For some people, racking up frequent flier miles can border on obsession.


The Wall Street Journal would have a black border on the newspaper.


At least 25 Pakistani troops died during a prolonged clash after hundreds of militants crossed the Afghan border on Tuesday, officials say.


Complaints about the possibility of higher taxes next year border on idiotic.


Between the vocabulary of technology engineers and the MBA-speak of businesspeople, descriptions of computers tend to border on the Byzantine and deaden the senses.


With sustained winds of 140 mph, Rita is packing the same punch as Katrina when it slammed into the Louisiana-Mississippi border on August 29.


As an added bonus, these timepieces, which really border on art pieces, tell individual stories, many inspired by India, the Middle East and Greece.


We think that Robert Half is far from Undervalued, but after the selloff it starts to border on our neutral stance given current fundamentals.